Rail-chair



(No Model.)

A. I. WOLFE.

RAIL CHAIR. No. 400,027. Patented Mar. 19,1889.

I Min vxfi UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICEO ALLEN ISAAC \VOLFE, OF NEIVBIIRY, INDIANA.

RAIL-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,027, dated March 19, 1889.

7 Application filed September 22, 1888. Serial No. 286,070. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLEN ISAAC WVOLFE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newbury, in the county of Lagrange and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Chairs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to rail-chairs.

The object is to produce a rail-chair which will effectually prevent the rails from becoming loose by the vibration incident to the passage of trains over the track; furthermore, to produce a device to be used in connection with the chair for keeping the nuts on the bolts used for holding the rail-chair together from working loose and falling off, and, finally, to produce a rail-chair which shall be simple of construction, efficient and durable in use, and comparatively inexpensive of production \Vith these objects in view the invention consists in an improved rail-chair; furthermore, in the various novel details of construction, as will be hereinafter more fully described in the specification, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a perspective of the device,

showing the same in position on the sleepers and the rails secured in position in the chair. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the stationary cheek-piece. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the removable cheek-piece, and Fig. t is a detail view of the device for preventing the nuts from working loose.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the stationary cheek-piece, to the under side, a, of which is secured a lug, a, in which is rigidly secured, either b casting or by any other method, a base-piece, (L2, on which the rails are designed to rest when the device is intact.

B designates the removable cheekpiece, which is provided on its lower side with a lug, 1), similar to that on the stationary piece, only that it is provided with an opening, I), designed for the reception of the base-piece a when the device is put together. On the outer side, 6 of this removable cheek-piece is formed a dovetailed groove, b, in which a slotted bar, 0, is designed to fit. This bar is provided with a number of circular openings, 0', one side of which is cut out to form a square opening, 0 the opening when completed resembling somewhat a key-hole.

In operation, the stationary jaw A, having been firmly secured by means of spikes upon the sleepers, the meeting ends of the rails are placed on the base-plate, the flanges of which rail pass under the shoulders at" of the stationary cheek-piece and b of the removable cheek-piece and rest upon the base-piece a The removable jaw is then placed in position, so that the inner side of its longitudinal face fits closely against the web of the rail. The slotted baris then put in place, and bolts are introduced through suitable openings in the rail and in the cheek-pieces, the openings in the said cheek-pieces being elongated to keep the bolts from turning While the nuts are being screwed home, the screw-threaded end of the said bolts extending through the circular portion of the key-hole slots in the slotted bar, which are of sufficient size to allow the nuts to be turned without coming in contact with the sides ofthe openings. After the nuts have been screwed up, the slotted bar is then driven forward, the nuts passing through v the square openings, which will effectually prevent their turning. In order to prevent the bar from working loose, the end 0 may be bent down and around the edge of the removable jaw or cheek-piece, so as to hold it firmly in place. The base-piece a is provided with a transverse slot, a preferably directly under the point where the two rails meet, so that should any moisture enter between the two rails it may pass directly out, and thus preserve both the base-piece and the rails from rusting.

It will be seen from the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings, that the construction, operation, and advantages of my invention will be readily understood. It will be seen that this rail-chair is exceedingly simple and strong in construction, and that it forms a solid joint for the ends of the rails, while at the same time allowing for their reception and contraction by heat or cold.

piece, of a dovetailed slot out in one side and designed for the reception of a bar provided with ke -hele slot-s designed to engage the nuts of the heits [er holding the deviee in- HWY, substantially as described.

In testimony Unit I ehiiln the feregeing as 10 my own I have hereunto affixed inysignature in presence of two witi'iesses.

ALLEN ISAAC \VOLFE.

Vitnesses:

HENRY W. IiIXex, DAVID C. UOSTETTER. 

